A member of the jury points toward the locks at the Kingston Mills Locks in Kingston Ontario on Thursday, October 27, 2011. Mohammed Shafia his wife Tooba and their son Hamed are charged with first degree murder of sisters Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, Geeti, 13 and Rona Amir Mohammad, Mohammad's first wife. The bodies were found inside in the family's Nissan Sentra in the Kingston Mills locks on June 30, 2009.Lars Hagberg/The Canadian Press
An Ontario jury is hearing that the first police officer to interview a Montreal family accused of killing four relatives almost immediately suspected they knew more than they were telling him.
Tooba Mohammad Yahya, 41, her husband Mohammad Shafia, 58, and their son, Hamed Mohammad Shafia, 20, have each pleaded not guilty to four counts of first-degree murder.
Three teenage Shafia sisters, Zainab, 19, Sahari, 17, and Geeti, 13, along with Shafia's other wife, Rona Amir Mohammad, 50, were found dead inside a submerged car in June 2009 in the Rideau Canal.
The family had stopped in Kingston, Ont., on their way home from a trip to Niagara Falls and they told police Zainab took the car keys when they were at the motel that night and that was the last they saw her.
Court was shown videos today of police interviews with the family the day the bodies were found, and the detective is seen suggesting, especially to Hamed, that he may have witnessed something and isn't being truthful.
The Crown alleges the three accused used one family car to push the other containing the four victims into the canal because they thought the daughters had dishonoured the family by having boyfriends.